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Survey of English Place-Names

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Crancow Mdw

Field in the Parish of Stoke upon Tern

Historical Forms

  • 1840 TA
  • Crankow 1684 SBL
  • The Rod Meadow otherwise The Rood 1684 SBL
  • otherwise Cankow 1684 SBL

Etymology

Crancow Mdw(6 adjacent fields on S. boundary, ½ mile from Cramer Cottages supra,Crankow 1684(1796), The Rod Meadow otherwise The Rood, otherwise Cankow 1787)